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Salvation, Lordship
Consecrated to God
“I doubt, indeed, whether we have any warrant for saying that a man can possibly be converted without being consecrated to God. More consecrated he doubtless can be, and will be as his grace increases; but if he was not consecrated to God in the very day that he was converted and born again, I do not know what conversion means.”
Bishop Ryle, quoted in J. Bridges, The Pursuit of Holiness, p. 38
Converted and Natural Men Indistinguishable
Converted men as a class are indistinguishable from natural men; some natural men even excel some converted men in their fruits; and no one ignorant of doctrinal theology could guess by mere every-day inspection of the “accidents” of the two groups of persons before him that their substance differed as much as divine differs from human substance.
William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, p. 233, quoted in Disappointment With God, Philip Yancey, Zondervan, p. 217
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